Double Wooden Mask

Item number E219895-0 from the National Museum of Natural History.

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From card: "Large double mask of wood ornamented with the fur of the black bear--from Kingcomb Inlet, the coast of British Columbia--the Kwakiutl people. It was known as "Zuno" and is suposed to represent a double dealing man who gave most liberally at feasts but was not to be trusted. It was last used at a feast given at Fort Rupert about 1899. Exhibit Hall 9, 1987. Identified in exhibit label as a double faced Dzoonokwa, Kwakiutl, collected at Kingcomb Inlet, British Columbia, about 1900."Emmons describes this mask as being for sale in a letter filed filed in accession 39904, letter dated May 28, 1902 and sent from Victoria, B.C.. He lists it as being from Fort Rupert (presumably because that is where it was last used.)